{"id":38746,"date":"2020-02-27T17:09:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38746"},"modified":"2020-02-27T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:09:59","slug":"skocic-meets-with-croatian-fa-chief-davor-suker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/02\/27\/skocic-meets-with-croatian-fa-chief-davor-suker\/","title":{"rendered":"Skocic meets with Croatian FA chief Davor Suker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZAGREB, <strong>Iran national football team head coach Dragan Skocic met with Croatian Football Federation president Davor Suker on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a meeting which was held in Croatian Football Federation\u2019s headquarters, the officials underlined their willingness to promote cooperation in football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legendary Croatian footballer, who helped the Chequered Ones finish third in the 1998 World Cup, had previously said he is interested in visiting Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skocic has recently met the Iranian footballers playing in Belgium league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skocic, who was appointed as Team Melli coach in early February, has a difficult task ahead since Iran will have four must-win matches in late March and early June in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC Asian Cup China 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will entertain Hong Kong on March 26 in Tehran and meet Cambodia five days later in an away match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Persians will face Bahrain and Iraq on June 4 and 9, respectively in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, who are going to continue their quest for a sixth World Cup appearance, sit five points behind leaders Iraq in Group C but having played one game fewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZAGREB, Iran national football team head coach Dragan Skocic met with Croatian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":872,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38748,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38746\/revisions\/38748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}